Beautifully Unexpected

by Lily Morton

I look down at Endof, who immediately adopts an innocent face that is slightly spoiled by the leather wallet hanging out of his mouth. “Bah. This animal is defective.”

“You are a menace,” I inform the creature, and he gives a groan and rolls onto his back with his legs in the air.

“It was terrifying for a teenager who knew he was gay. I won’t forget it, and I refuse to live according to the ideas of narrow-minded bigots. They don’t get a say in my life, and they never will. They need to look to their own lives. They must be quite narrow if they’re so obsessed with what grown adults do in their own beds.”